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Voters in New York City could make history Tuesday night by electing their first Muslim mayor. Polls have suggested Zohran Mamdani has a lead over Andrew Cuomo, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten to withhold federal funds from the city. Here's a guide to the election.

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, its few remaining inhabitants shuffle to find food or water under the constant gaze - and hum - of the drones that now rule the battlefield.

Chinese President Xi Jinping gifted South Korean President Lee Jae Myung a pair of smartphones, jokingly telling him to 'check if there's a backdoor' - referring to the risk of unauthorized bypassing of security controls. Andrew Chang breaks down the layers of Xi's comment to better understand what may have been hidden behind the humour.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to the scheming parent in Wild at Heart, has died at 89.

Jamaica's peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island's western region.

The Trump administration says it will restart the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but will only pay half the amount people usually get. The move comes after two federal judges ruled that freezing payments for the U.S.'s biggest anti-hunger program is unlawful.

Actor-director Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist will not be moving forward, after a judge formally ended the suit, saying Baldoni did not refile any amended claims by the deadline.

Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in theGazaStrip on Monday, north of the southern city of Rafah, which remains under Israeli control, according to local health authorities, further straining the fragileU.S.-backed ceasefire.

The world's leading authority on food crises says it has detected famine in two areas of war-torn Sudan, including the city of El Fasher where paramilitary groups have reportedly been carrying out mass killings.

A Romanian worker who was trapped for hours under rubble in Rome on Monday following the partial collapse of a medieval tower near the Colosseum has been rescued by emergency services, local authorities said.

Ukraine has received more American-made Patriot air defence systems to help it counter Russia's daily barrages, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Russian drones killed a man and injured five of his family members in the latest nighttime attack.

Zohran Mamdani is expected to take the reins of the largest city in the United States after Tuesday's general election. Some say his progressive politics may not translate to Democratic victory on a national level.

A 6.3-magnitudeearthquakestruck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday, killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds and damaging the city's historic Blue Mosque, authorities said, with the death toll likely to rise.

One of the monkeys that escaped last week after a truck overturned on a Mississippi roadway was shot and killed early Sunday by a homeowner who says she feared for the safety of her children.

Israel on Sunday announced that the remains of three hostages had been handed over from Gaza and would be examined by forensic experts, as a fragile month-old ceasefire held.

Police were questioning a 32-year-old British man Sunday on suspicion of attempted murder over a mass stabbing attack that spread fear and panic on a London-bound train and left 11 people hospitalized.

Michele Facchini, a Second World War researcher, found a duffel bag of a Cape Breton soldier in Italy. With it, Facchini unearthed the story of Hector Colin McDonald.

The controversy that had been swirling around Prince Andrew became a crisis for the Royal Family, and in King Charles's handling of it there could be signals of the kind of monarchy he hopes to lead.

CBC News accompanied several mothers in the search for their missing children in Mexico City. The capital is the first jurisdiction in the country to use a pattern-based strategy to find the about 7,000 people listed as disappeared in the city.

Police in the U.K. say they have declared a stabbing attack a 'major incident,' and that counter-terrorism police are supporting the investigation.

The warning of possible military action came after Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu earlier on Saturday pushed back on Trump announcing that he was designating the West African country 'a country of particular concern' for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.

The remains of three people Hamas handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza do not belong to any hostages, Israel said Saturday, in the latest setback to the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.

The Paris prosecutor said Saturday two new suspects were handed preliminary charges for their alleged involvement in the crown jewels heist at the Louvre museum.

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan was declared on Saturday the landslide winner of an election that set off deadly protests across the country this week over the exclusion of her main challengers.

Two U.S. citizens whose forceful arrests by ICE were caught on video say federal agents violated their constitutional rights. As backlash against the administration's escalating immigration raids grows, more than 170 U.S. citizens have been detained by immigration officers since Trump reclaimed the presidency.

The practice of withholding the dead lives on both sides of the Israeli-Hamas war, a cruel bargaining tactic not exclusive to this latest Gaza conflict.

Millions of people across the Caribbean are trying to deal with the devastating effects of Hurricane Melissa, which tore through the region this week, slamming into Jamaica as a Category 5 storm. Now, several groups have done a rapid analysis to determine what role climate change could have played.

For more than 30 years, major nuclear powers have refrained from testing nuclear bombs. But that streak may soon be over as Russia and the U.S. conduct missile tests and threaten to resume explosions of the most powerful weapons ever devised.

The murder-for-hire trial of Nikhil (Nick) Gupta, accused of planning assassinations for the Indian government in New York, has been delayed. The trial, which was due to start on Monday in New York, is expected to reveal extensive evidence about the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in B.C.

YouTube TV viewers can no longer see Disney channels including ABC and ESPN after the two sides failed to agree on a new content distribution deal.

The Israeli military attacked theGazaStrip for a fourth day on Friday, killing three people, Palestinian health authorities said, in another test of afragile ceasefire agreement.

HurricaneMelissa's confirmed death toll climbed to 49 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed past Bermuda in the North Atlantic.

Prime Minister Mark Carney met with China's Xi Jinping for 39 minutes Friday, where the leaders agreed to meet again and work toward reducing the irritants between their countries. But it's unclear whether this will lead to reducing the crushing tariffs on Canadian canola and Chinese electric vehicles.

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Prime Minister Mark Carney to visit China as the pair met on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea on Friday.

An anonymous Pentagon employee and a retired air force colonel are expressing concerns this week that the U.S. focus on alleged drug-carrying boats in waters near Latin America could affect American military might around the world, and serve as a precedent for other countries.

President Donald Trump is slashing the number of refugees allowed into the United States, and people fleeing war-torn countries, human rights abuses and catastrophes will now be of lower priority than white people from South Africa.

Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian crisis.

The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid announced $7 million in humanitarian relief for Caribbean states hit by Hurricane Melissa on Thursday.

U.S. PresidentDonald Trumpsaid on Thursday he had agreedwith PresidentXiJinpingtotrim existing tariffs on China in exchange for Beijing cracking down on the illicit fentanyl trade, resuming U.S. soybean purchases and keeping rare earths exports flowing.

Police have arrested five more suspects linked tothe theft of treasures worth $143 million Cdnfrom theLouvremuseum's Apollo gallery, a Paris prosecutor said on Thursday, expressing hope the latest developments will help find the jewels.

India is pitching Ahmedabad as the host city for the 2036 Olympic Games, but there are significant hurdles to India's longstanding ambitions, including persistent questions over mismanagement and governance issues within the country's Olympic Association, as well as low medal counts at previous Games.

Speed cameras are widely in use across Europe, where studies have shown they are highly effective at preventing accidents.

U.S. President Donald Trump, ahead of his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, said he has instructed the Department of Defence to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons on an "equal basis" with other nuclear powers.

U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the country's military carried out another strike on a boat he said was carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing all four people aboard.

Before Chris Dennis, a.k.a. La Voix, found fame on RuPaul's Drag Race U.K. and the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, he worked as a makeup artist in London - where, in 2009, he unwittingly played a role in one of the biggest robberies in British history.

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services.

Olympic athletes in February will compete in Milan-Cortina, Italy and three other mountain clusters. The Games will mostly make use of existing infrastructure, though some venues are being renovated or built from scratch.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney were seated across the table and even acknowledged each other during a toast at a dinner ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, but the two appeared to have virtually nothing to say to one another amid the U.S.-Canada trade war.

The death toll from a massive police raid on a notorious gang in Rio de Janeiro rose Wednesday to 119, including four policemen, Brazilian police said.

The Israeli military said on Wednesday that itwill abide bya ceasefire accord inGaza, as health officials in the enclave said airstrikes had killed 104 people, with both sides trading blame for violations of the deal.